Kremlin - the oldest part of Kazan, the city's history is inextricably linked with it. Education of the city began with the date of construction of the fortress on the hill. A castle on the hill, as it is now considered to have been founded in the beginning of XI century. The construction of a stone fortress had already begun under Ivan the Terrible.

Of the 13 towers, after numerous fires and rework, survived only 8. The most elegant of them - Savior. Initially, it was a white stone tower with bunk crank travel, high-roofed wooden roof and a tent. The top two tiers of the tent and are built in the XVIII century. In the middle of the XIX century to the right of the tower in the wall struck lancet arch shape. Over time, the crankshaft passage laid. Even after the Revolution had broken through-passage through the Spassky Tower.

Built almost simultaneously with the Spassky Tower, Taynitskaya, unlike her, he kept cranked travel. Impressive lower tier carries a smaller area overhead. His architectural treatment refers to the XVII century. With promenades surrounding the upper tier, offers a beautiful view of the city.

Soyembike tower was built no earlier than the last quarter of the seventeenth century on the foundations of an earlier patrol-sentry tower khan period. This is one of the few in the world of falling towers: immediately after the completion of the tower began to tilt to the east, the west side because it was built on the foundations of an old watchtower, turned out to be more stable. By 1930, the deviation from the axis has reached its apex 128 centimeters. Remediation carried out in 1990, suspended its roll.

The main attraction of the Kazan Kremlin Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation is built by Pskov masters - Ivan Shiryaev and Postnik Yakovlev in 1562. Temple has repeatedly been subjected to the ravages of fire, quite often in Kazan. It is a white stone, with a fresco inside the grand building of the five chapters of semi-circular shape, similar to the Moscow Cathedral of the Assumption. Annunciation Cathedral is a necropolis at the same time as the graves of all the Archbishop of Kazan, who died before the 1917 revolution. Unfortunately, not all burial survived. Who are conducted restoration work.

In 1995, work began on the "reconstruction" of the legendary Kul-Sharif Mosque. This religious, cultural, educational and memorial center, so the ground floor of the building houses the Museum of Islam.